Name: Sarah Finnis
Burial Number: 1301
Gender: Female
Occupation: Domestic Servant; Dressmaker;
Born: 00/3/1854
Died: 07/07/1927
Buried: 12/07/1927
Mother:
Rebecca Kent
Father:
George Finnis
Family No: 0570
Story
Sarah Fanny Finnis was born in Depwade in Norfolk to George Finnis of Worthing and Rebecca Kent of Norfolk, and was baptised on 5 March 1854 in Starston, Norfolk. Her father’s occupation was a policeman.
Sarah’s parents met in Worthing when Mother Rebecca was working as a Housemaid to a family close to where George lived. Her parents married in 1852 and had a daughter Millicent later that year. Sarah was born in Depwade Norfolk in her mother’s hometown two years later in 1854.
The following year her grandfather died in 1855 and by 1861 the census records shows that the family had settled in Westminster London at 34 Ponsonby Place, Westminster, where her father George was a police constable for the metropolitan police. Sarah had another 6 siblings born to her parents in London, Henry 1856, Caroline 1858, Emily 1860, Mary Ann 1862 who dies the following year. Eliza 1864, and Mary 1868
Sarah takes a post as a domestic servant at Eltham House in Eltham, Kent. There are no census records found for Sarah until 1901 where she returns unmarried to live with her parents and sister Eliza at 12 Thorn Road, Worthing at the age of 47 years where both Sarah and her sister Eliza are dressmakers. Her father has retired from the Metropolitan Police and is working as a boatman at the age of 73.
Her sister Eliza dies later that year in 1901 of Septicaemia from a stomach ulcer and was buried at Heene cemetery.
Her mother dies in 1908 and Sarah has remained unmarried and living with her father George at 25 Thorn Road in 1911, still working as a dressmaker, her father has retired.
George her father dies in 1914
Sarah being the last remaining immediate family in Worthing dies at the age of 73 in Worthing in 1927 and is laid to rest with her father in Heene Cemetery. Mother Rebecca is buried close by. Sisters, Eliza Finnis and Millicent Burden and husband George Burden are also buried very close by to Sarah and her parents.
Researcher: Gail Warner-Clarkson
The Grave
Location in Cemetery
Area: EB Row: 2 Plot: 34
Exact Location (what3words): deeply.term.fence
Ashes or Urn: Unknown
Headstone
Description:
No description of the headstone has been added.
Inscription:
In loving memory of George Finnis died 8th Sep 1914 aged 86 "Until the day break" Also of Sarah Finnis died 7th July 1927 aged 73 years.
Further Information
Birth
Name: Sarah Fanny Finnis
Gender: Female
Born: 00/3/1854
Town: Depwade
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Marriage
Maiden Name: Not applicable
No marriage information is available for this burial record.Information at Death
Date of Death: 07/07/1927
Cause of death: Unknown
Address line 2: 25
Address line 3: Thorn Road
Town: Worthing
County: Sussex
Country: England
Obituary
No obituary has been entered.
Personal Effects
Money left to others: No value recorded
Current value of effects: Not calculated
Census Information
1861
Living at 34 Ponsonby Place, St Johns E Westminster with parents, George 33 yrs. Police Constable, Rebecca 35 yrs. Millicent 8 yrs. Scholar. Fanny S 7 yrs. Scholar, Henry 5 yrs. Caroline 3 yrs. Emily 1 yr.
1871
Living at Carlton House, Eltham Kent aged 17yrs. Living with the Hunt family with 4 children and two other domestic servants. The head of the house was a wholesale stationer
1901
Living at 12 Thorn Road Worthing with parents George 73 yrs. Boatman, Rebecca 76yrs. Sister Eliza 37 yrs. Dressmaker and Sarah Fanny 47 yrs. Dressmaker
1911
Living at 25 Thorn Road, 57 yrs. Dressmaker her father George 83yrs. Metropolitan Police Pensioner
1921
Living at 25, Thorn Road, Worthing, Sussex.
| Fanny Sarah | Finnis |
Head
|
Female | 1854 | 67 | Norfolk, England | Needlework | Own Account |
| Alice | Wilson |
Visitor
|
Female | 1847 | 74 | London, England | – | – |
